Category Archives: General

Go go go!

Posted on July 2, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Only a week after the seeds went into the soil in my experiment at the university in Belgium, seedlings are already bravely facing the heat wave. Always awesome to see their little green faces pop up above the soil, especially … Continue reading →

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Posted on June 8, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Ekenäs Herrgård is an old mansion in the south of Sweden, close to the village of Flen and on a one hour drive, with a cute old black train, from the capital Stockholm. We were so lucky to have a meeting … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Architecture, Ecology, Flen, Mansion, Meeting, Mountains, Nature, PhD, Photography, Plant invasion, Scandinavia, Science, Sweden, Travel, Travelling | 1 Comment

Empowering biodiversity

Posted on May 21, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Off to beautiful Brussels today for a conference on the use of large scale datasets in ecology (the future!). I present a poster on my plans to model the distribution of mountain invaders based on our global dataset. In the … Continue reading →

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Buzzy burr

Posted on May 5, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

I can again proudly announce that I wrote a new post about Chile on Scilogs.be, the Belgian science-blog. Find it here (but pay attention, it is in Dutch!) Don’t worry, more English posts will follow soon! In the meantime, enjoy this little flag … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Animals, Birds, Chile, Ecology, Nature photography, Photography, Plants, Science, South America | Leave a comment

The Antarctic feel

Posted on April 21, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Punta Arenas is the closest a big city gets to Antartica. The implications of that fact are nowhere felt better as on the top of the Cerro Mirador, the mountain overlooking the city. I have to admit the weather conditions in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Antarctica, Chile, Extreme, Nature photography, Photography, Snow, South America, Subantarctic, Travel, Travelling, White, Wildlife, Winter | 3 Comments

Window seat

Posted on April 2, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

If you fly down through Chile from Santiago to Punta Arenas, make sure you have a window seat! And not just any window seat, you would like to be on the left side of the plane, cause from there, you … Continue reading →